One of the interesting highlights of last year's Apple WWDC was the announcement of HomeKit. It is a framework that is designed to integrate iOS devices and Siri with home automation accessories such as thermostats, light switches, and more. The idea...
Intel officially announced at Computex 2015 today the latest generation of Thunderbolt standard, which will use the USB Type-C connector and support data rates of up to 40Gbps. Instead of using the Mini DisplayPort connector, Thunderbolt 3 will use the...
During the past year at OWC, we’ve been celebrating our 25th year of providing award-winning products, service, and support to the Apple community and tech industry with a sweepstake, a fundraiser and with some rather sharp-looking flags. This October marks...
The Center for Disease Control has found a new way to spread the word about being prepared for emergencies with a new graphic novella, about the mother of all emergencies - a zombie attack. The novella, available for download on...
With all the talk on new Solid State Drives and the drive transfer speeds they offer, it's easy to overlook the time-honored, platter-based hard drive. The fact remains that there is still no better price per gigabyte when it comes to...
You know that feeling of accomplishment when you’ve overcome a huge obstacle and you can’t wait to tell the entire world about it? Well, we’ve got it; we’ve overcome the whole “fan/drive sensor” problem found when installing a non-factory drive in...
The recent iMac drive replacement issue topic made me go outside the box in my own thinking and made me wonder if Cupertino, yet again, had another ace up its sleeve we just weren't seeing yet. I thought long and...
It's incredible the coverage generated by yesterday's blog article on the further iMac upgrade restrictions. I'd like to personally address some questions, context, and provide additional technical detail concerning this issue. I want to be very clear that I think these are absolutely...
The new iMacs are out and there's so much we've been discovering. A firmware update unleashed 6Gb/s speeds on two of the SATA ports, then an interesting design choice essentially takes one way. A couple of programmers take advantage of...
